He never broke his heart because he could not carry this or that reform.
What would have hurt him would have been to be worsted in personal conflict.

But he could always hold his own, and he was always happy.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement, is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician." "Mrs.Finn, you understand it all better than any one else that I ever knew." "I have been watching it a long time, and of course very closely since I have been married." "But you have an eye trained to see it all.

What a useful member you would have been in a government!" "But I should never have had patience to sit all night upon that bench in the House of Commons.

How men can do it! They mustn't read.
They can't think because of the speaking.